Twenty-one days of a neurasthenic
Subtitle: a novel
By: Octave Mirbeau ; translated from the French by Justin Vicari
Contributors: Vicari, Justin, 1968- translator
Edition: First Edition.
Series: French literature series; French literature series (Normal, Ill.)
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781628970302
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Mental Depression; Neurasthenia; Translations into English; Fiction; Mental illness
Other titles: 21 jours d'un neurasthénique; 21 days of a neurasthenic
Work titles: Vingt-et-un jours d'un neurasthénique
Description: Driven mad by modern life, Georges Vasseur leaves for a rest cure, where he encounters corrupt politicians, amnesiac coquettes, cheerfully sadistic killers, imperialist generals, and quack psychiatrists. Hypocrites are eternal, and not much has changed since Mirbeau wrote this acid portrait of his era.
Notes: "Originally published in French as Les Vingt-et-un jours d'un neurasthénique jours d'un neurasthénique by Charpentier-Fasquelle, 1901."